The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
I love love love love love the BBC micro:bit. I adore the folks who developed it. The micro:bit makes computational making possible in ways we …
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
Seymour Papert loved sharing children’s learning stories as a way of illuminating powerful ideas. His stories recounted the learning adventures of kids in classrooms, in …
Five or six years ago, I was honored with an invitation to contribute an essay to a collection of provocative treatises on education written by …
Anyone familiar with my work/scholarship knows that I am a constructionist who finds instruction to be severely overvalued. This is an admittedly unpopular view in …
Not all screens are created equally! There is a profound difference between how parents use an iPad to quiet a toddler at a pancake house …
I once heard former President Clinton say, “every problem in education has been solved somewhere.” Educators stand on the shoulders of giants and should be …
Curation is a form of good teaching. Great teachers provide just the right number of deliberate materials to ensure that the student has ample supply …
I just came across an article, No One is Talking About AI’s Impact on Reading, by Marc Watkins. I thought it would be useful to …
I spent the past two glorious weeks in-residence at Westbourne Grammar School, outside of Melbourne, Australia. It was a pure joy having such a spectacular …
